Cinematheque KOFA

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Missing Johnny

Director : HUANG Xi Cast : Rima ZEIDAN, Lawrence KO Yu-luen, HUANG Yuan
2017 105min D-Cinema
"I feel when people are too close, they forget how to love each other."

Hsu (Rima ZEIDAN) moved to Taipei alone. Recently, she starts to receive phone calls looking for a guy named Johnny. These wrong calls stir up her emotions and prompt her curiosity to put together Johnny’s life piece by piece. Lee (HUANG Yuan) is the son of Hsu’s landlord living downstairs. Everyday, Lee listens to his own recordings that repeatedly play his reading of books, newspaper columns or radio contents. Ever since he finds out Hsu’s got a new bird, he can’t concentrate on his daily routines but to pursue her and her birds. Feng (KO Yu-Luen) is a wandering foreman hired by Lee’s mother and starts a renovation site nearby Lee’s apartment. His beloved old car breaks down on the way to the Lee’s. He’s bewildered by paranoia. Upon the commencement of the construction site, Feng, Lee and Hsu come together because of a lost bird. Their lives merge and cross. Transient beauty from the crisscross of people bloom hereafter.

"Memories are carved into city landscapes by people. To tell urban stories, one needs to unravel the doldrums of everyday life. Steering away from solitude of urban individuals, we capture and confront the very face of flashing emotions."   [HUANG Xi, Director]

Source of Screening Material : Mandarin Vision
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